November 29, 2019 10:30PM | Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 16,078
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dzrams
Proof or correlation, call it what you will.
The second part of your prong can be proven b/c he played behind an OL that was ranked 13th by one metric.
My premise is this: 1st half of 2018 it was ranked top 5 or Good (in a nod to rampage666 of more general categories). In the 2nd half it was ranked 13th or Average.
In the 1st half Goff was top 10. In the 2nd half Goff was top 20-25. It doesn't get much clearer.
The ranking in the 2nd half of 2018 means very little, really. Rankings like that are based on averages, and averages ccan disguise an up and down pattern of inconsistency (if that's there...and it was.) As I have said, the right side of the OL (Sullivan and over) was exposed after the bye and could not hold up against top front 7s or at least well-schemed, top Ds. So yeah it was inconsistent. In other games after the bye it could cope but it was certainly not a top OL. Yet the Rams were capable of beating the Saints in their place, and that included Goff getting them in FG range to tie the game with under 2 minutes on the clock.
Goff's rankings were inconsistent right in keeping with the OL play. When the OL could not hold up he was not nearly as good as when they could hold up. So in 4 of the final 8 games he averaged a qb rating of 55.3, and in 4 he averaged a qb rating of 99.3. Yet the OL was not playing like a top 5 unit in the 4 "up" games. They just held their own against defenses they could cope with.
As I said, go merely by the raw average and it hides the up and down inconsistency. In each case it started with the OL. Games where they were at least okay, so was Goff. Games where they were massively overmatched, so was Goff. Which is more or less what people should expect. Attack and stymie a team's OL, and pretty much invariably the qb suffers too. Maintain an at least decent level of play, and the qb does better (assuming he's a good one in the first place).
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/29/2019 10:34PM by zn.
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